holocene

Questions about holocene

What does holocene mean?

holocene means "approximately the last 10,000 years".

How many syllables are in holocene?

holocene has 3 syllables and divides as ho-lo-cene under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for holocene?

Close synonyms include Holocene epoch, Recent, Recent epoch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is holocene a common word?

holocene is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.